On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Dana Dorsett wrote:
> ended up 12-14' deep in places! And this is a relatively open area with
> some runout, not a box canyon or some snaky couloir! Perhaps I was
> underestimating how deep a thin slab release above Chute would be (I was
> guesstimating a 4" slab would result in 4-6' of junk rolling through the
> slot. It's probably more.)
Dana, it's early season though. I think the places where it accumulated
that deep were in the gully to climbers left of the Tucks hiking trail,
which is a sort of terrain trap before it gets buried (basically right
where the snow arch forms). From the sound of it these guys were
climbing the series of ice bulges that form around and below the main
stream coming off Schillers Rock (or whatever the high falls are called).
Jerm
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